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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse.
It was designed for engineering purposes. -
Fortran
Designed by John Backus.
It is most used for numeric computation and scientific computing. -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy.
It was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. -
COBOL
Designed by Howard Bromberg.
It was designed for business use such as finance and administrative systems. -
RPG
Developed by IBM.
It was created for punch card machines.
It stands for Report Program Generator. -
BASIC
Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
Kemeny and Kurtz designed BASIC to allow students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
It was Conceived to teach concepts of programming related to other programs. -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson
It was designed for non-numeric, recursive, machine independent applications such as language software
The name may be a contraction of BCPL (Basic Combined Programing Language) -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth.
It was intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie
It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory. -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner.
It stands for Meta Language.
It is known for its automatically assigning the types of most expressions without requireing -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system and for data stream processing.
It stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah
Developed in May 1979
Named after Ada Lovelace
ADA's purpose was to improve code safety and maintain ability by using the computer to find syntax errors in coding -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup
It was designed with a bias towards system programming. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft.
Used to create applications. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum.
It allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than might be used in languages such as C++ or Java. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling.
The purpose was to create complete applications that may run on a single computer or be distributed among servers and clients in a network. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
It was primarily made for web development but is also used as a general purpose programming language.
It stands for Personal Home Page. -
JavaScript
Designed by Brendan Eich.
It was used to control web pages on the client side of the browser.